Large-Scale IP Network Solutions (CCIE Professional Development)

Network Management Systems

The design of a well-integrated Network Management System (NMS) has proven to be a very challenging area of software development. Few if any commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems work in the largest environments without at least some tailoring. In many cases, public domain software is still used extremely effectively because it is often well-understood, and because it can be fine-tuned by operations engineers. In addition, forming an NMS from a number of stand-alone tools avoids the proverbial situation of putting all the eggs in one basket. In other words, if the NMS is a tightly integrated package and, for example, the underlying database is corrupted, the network can be left without any management functionality ...